COLUMNA, Guido de (c. 1210 - after 1280). Historia destructionis Troiae . Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], c. 9 October 1486.
COLUMNA, Guido de (c. 1210 - after 1280). Historia destructionis Troiae . Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], c. 9 October 1486. [ Bound with :] ALEXANDER MAGNUS -- Historia Alexandri Magni . Translated by Leo Archipresbyter (fl. mid-10th century). Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 14 October 1486. First of three editions printed by Husner at Strasbourg, presenting popular medieval versions of classical histories, one on Alexander the Great and the other the Trojan wars. Goff C-773; Goff A-397. Two works in one volume, chancery folio (285 x 200mm). With final blank in second work, both works with initials in red or blue, rubricated (first initial of second work pasted over). Contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards (somewhat worn and repaired). Provenance : contemporary annotations in red ink in first work – ‘ZOL-‘ (stamp on rear pastedown). A troubadour at the courts of Friedrich II and later of Edward I of England, Guido de Columna’s work on the fall of Troy dates from the 13th century and has as its chief source the twelfth-century Roman de Troye by Benoît de Saint-Maure. The romanticized biography of Alexander Magnus derives from a Greek manuscript found by Leo Archipresbyter when on diplomatic mission to Constantinople around 950. He transcribed it and returned with his copy to Naples where he made a Latin prose version for his patron, Duke John III. It is Leo's version which has most widely influenced the subsequent transmission of the Alexander romance; Husner's Strasbourg editions are an interpolated and enlarged version of Leo's translation. The two works were produced by Husner as companion volumes, as their shared lay-out, subject matter and close date of printing make clear; they are frequently found bound together, as here. Columna: H *5509; GW 7230; BMC I, 134; CIBN C-529; Bod-inc C-396; BSB-Ink G-435; Goff C-773. Alexander Magnus: H *779; GW 876; CIBN H-147; Bod-inc A-172; BSB-Ink H-290; Goff A-397.
COLUMNA, Guido de (c. 1210 - after 1280). Historia destructionis Troiae . Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], c. 9 October 1486.
COLUMNA, Guido de (c. 1210 - after 1280). Historia destructionis Troiae . Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], c. 9 October 1486. [ Bound with :] ALEXANDER MAGNUS -- Historia Alexandri Magni . Translated by Leo Archipresbyter (fl. mid-10th century). Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 14 October 1486. First of three editions printed by Husner at Strasbourg, presenting popular medieval versions of classical histories, one on Alexander the Great and the other the Trojan wars. Goff C-773; Goff A-397. Two works in one volume, chancery folio (285 x 200mm). With final blank in second work, both works with initials in red or blue, rubricated (first initial of second work pasted over). Contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards (somewhat worn and repaired). Provenance : contemporary annotations in red ink in first work – ‘ZOL-‘ (stamp on rear pastedown). A troubadour at the courts of Friedrich II and later of Edward I of England, Guido de Columna’s work on the fall of Troy dates from the 13th century and has as its chief source the twelfth-century Roman de Troye by Benoît de Saint-Maure. The romanticized biography of Alexander Magnus derives from a Greek manuscript found by Leo Archipresbyter when on diplomatic mission to Constantinople around 950. He transcribed it and returned with his copy to Naples where he made a Latin prose version for his patron, Duke John III. It is Leo's version which has most widely influenced the subsequent transmission of the Alexander romance; Husner's Strasbourg editions are an interpolated and enlarged version of Leo's translation. The two works were produced by Husner as companion volumes, as their shared lay-out, subject matter and close date of printing make clear; they are frequently found bound together, as here. Columna: H *5509; GW 7230; BMC I, 134; CIBN C-529; Bod-inc C-396; BSB-Ink G-435; Goff C-773. Alexander Magnus: H *779; GW 876; CIBN H-147; Bod-inc A-172; BSB-Ink H-290; Goff A-397.
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